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Hey you! Yeah, you! Feeling pretty OK about the way you look today? Got a little extra spring in your step? Well, stop it right now and take a look down at your stomach and get out your ruler! Because you -- yes you -- may very well have an imperfect...

Yep. The 81-year-old Redheaded Stranger is attending a special ceremony awarding him a fifth degree black-belt in the martial art of Gong Kwon Yu Sul. Which means, I think, that 81-year-old Willie Nelson could not only take you in a fight, but possib...

In 2011 Lady Gaga, along with mom Cynthia Germanotta, founded the Born This Way Foundation, dedicated to "creating a safe community that helps connect young people with the skills and opportunities they need to build a kinder, braver world." Which is...

When word started spreading of a Daft Punk-Jay Z collaboration track yesterday we didn't bother posting it right away since nothing is ever real and everything turns out to be a viral marketing hoax to promote somebody's new TV show or something. But...

An 13-year-old boy attending eighth grade in Chicago allegedly beaned a police officer in the arm with a snowball, and in return got a little lesson in disproportionate retaliation. According to local news outlet KY3 the officer was sitting in his ca...

Sad news day for that dude who sent me the hilarious "ur hot y feminazi?" message last month, and, indeed, for all people who spend a stupid amount of time online harassing innocent bloggers and telling them to die in fiery rape pits for no apparent ...

Donald Trump gave an extensive interview to BuzzFeed's McKay Coppins for a profile that published last week. The profile was not flattering. Needing someone to blame, The Donald exercised his overexposed catchphrase from "The Apprentice" on the aide ...

The Jamaican bobsled team got plenty of attention going into the Sochi Olympics as the return of the ultimate underdog team. But Prince Hubertus of Hohenlohe-Langenburg -- the one-man team for Mexico's downhill skiing competition -- puts them to sham...

Designer Timor Barshtman put together a clever 100-second clip that demonstrates the recycling of actors in the films of Quentin Tarantino, from Harvey Keitel in "Reservoir Dogs" finding his way in "Pulp Fiction," to Samuel L. Jackson in "Pulp Fictio...

For the first time in the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show's 138-year history, mixed breeds are finally being allowed into the competition. Which is very nice and inclusive of them. Sadly, mutts will only be allowed to compete in the "agility" compet...

If one man attempted to sneak a few rooster testes into Vietnam, and another man managed to procure 13 bottles of booze in his sweat pants after leaving a Costco, then what possibly could go wrong with one man’s smuggling 40,000 piranhas into the Dir...

A new study from YouGov reveals that 21% of you have bothered to leave reviews for places you have not gone and things you have not tried. Why? Mostly because you weirdos "just felt like it." Parents with children under 18 are the worst when it comes...

By this point, you’d figure that the Rickroll prank has long since passed its cultural expiration date. However, leave it to genius student Sairam Gudiseva to find a fresh spin on a formerly tired meme in a quantum physics essay, of all things. Rick ...

So guess what? Pope Francis rides a Harley. Well, at least he used to ride a Harley. Or he might have. We honestly don't know. What we do know, however, is that the Catholic Church's top dog and former club bouncer is auctioning his 1,585 cc Harley D...

Season three of Girls starts on Jan. 12. Sure, it can be some of the most self-important, indulgent shiz you will ever see, but it's also the best and most realistic portrayal of millennial angst ever to be committed to the small screen. Dunham's Han...

Robert Vick seriously picked the wrong week to escape from jail. Vick, 42, broke out of a minimum security prison in Lexington, Kentucky, only to find himself on the lam with only prison-issued khaki pants, a shirt and a jacket in the middle of a Pol...

It seems everyone is doling out $7.99 per month for the privilege of Netflix, that glimmering portal to instant TV marathons and endless movies. Everyone and their mother has written a list of the best titles streaming on Netflix right this very minu...

A Reddit sleuth posted this list of movies and TV shows that will be purged from Netflix in January 2014. If you have time off from work between now and Jan. 1, it might not be a bad use of your time to binge-watch some blockbusters (Braveheart, Top ...

Better Call Saul producer Peter Gould (who also happened to create the Saul Goodman character) has a great interview in Yahoo TV, where he talks about putting together after his work on Breaking Bad. According to Gould, the spinoff isn’t going to be ...

A conclusive study by the Library of Congress reports that only 1,575 of the nearly 11,000 films produced during the silent era still exist in their complete form. The study was commissioned by the National Film Preservation Board and written by hist...

Steven M. Bellovin, a computer science professor at Columbia, uncovered a startling fact. The launch code for all U.S. Minuteman nuclear missiles for 20 years used the same code: 00000000. Bellovin discovered this after finding a 2004 paper by Dr. Br...

Due to an internal website error, Walmart listed tons of expensive merchandise for sale at incredibly low prices Wednesday. Digital projectors and computer monitors normally costing $600 were listed for less than $10. And ABC reports the company “was...

A Canadian man has launched an Indiegogo campaign to mount a mission to hunt despotic warlord Joesph Kony and bring him to justice. This is the same man that the full force of the U.S. government and all the attention of one of the most viral videos ...

After finishing a "marathon” of Breaking Bad and finally catching up with the rest of the world, Sir Anthony Hopkins wrote Bryan Cranston a long fan email about his acting on the show, saying, “Your performance as Walter White was the best acting I h...

Everyone’s favorite astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson saw Gravity over the weekend and, unlike you, he thought it was totally dumb. Which is part of the problem with being too smart: You lose the capacity for the willing suspension of disbelief. Den...

They said it couldn’t be done. But it has! MIT researchers recently managed to create self-assembling modular robots. The researchers even released a video demonstrating their success. According to MIT, back in 2011, MIT senior John Romanishin was ad...

It’s things like this, New York Times: On Friday morning, award-winning journalist Seymour Hersh gave an interview to the Guardian about the Obama administration and its harrowing laundry list of deceit — the shining item on which happens to be the “...

Ticketmaster is kind of like that uncle you never speak about at Christmas dinner. The company is both a necessary evil and the incarnation of evil itself. We all know about the hardships of having to shell out an arm and a leg to see you favorite ba...

I set out to write a post about the New Zealand indie pop act Lorde (née Ella Yelich-O’Connor). As I was doing my preliminary research, I came across something I didn’t expect. Lorde is 16, going on 17, this November. I started to realize that quite ...

In an era when nearly every new album is leaked in one form or another, it should come as little surprise that a forthcoming release of new material from The Beatles was unearthed by some very savvy Internet sleuths. Apparently set for a November rel...

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Have you been in contact with an alien? At some point in your life, has an extra-terrestrial telepathically communicated with you about its life on another planet, or better yet, its life on our planet? Have you ever made love to an alien, or become ...

In an era when nearly every new album is leaked in one form or another, it should come as little surprise that a forthcoming release of new material from The Beatles was unearthed by some very savvy Internet sleuths. Apparently set for a November rel...

I set out to write a post about the New Zealand indie pop act Lorde (née Ella Yelich-O’Connor). As I was doing my preliminary research, I came across something I didn’t expect. Lorde is 16, going on 17, this November. I started to realize that quite ...

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